Otto Hölder: a multifaceted mathematician (Q2809873)

This paper deals with some of the scientific contributions of the German mathematician Otto Ludwig Hölder (December 22, 1859 -- August 29, 1937). Hölder was born in Stuttgart and studied at the Polytechnikum, which today is the University of Stuttgart. In 1877, he went to Berlin where he was a student of Leopold Kronecker, Karl Weierstraß, and Ernst Kummer. Hölder is famous for his numerous contributions to various fields of mathematics, such as analysis, group theory, geometry, mathematical mechanics, and number theory. Some of the basic results of Otto Hölder are Hölder's inequality, the Jordan-Hölder theorem, the theorem stating that every linearly ordered group that satisfies an Archimedean property is isomorphic to a subgroup of the additive group of real numbers, the classification of simple groups of order up to 200, the anomalous outer automorphisms of the symmetric group \(\mathrm{S}_6\) and Hölder's theorem which implies that the Gamma function satisfies no algebraic differential equation. Another basic idea related to his name is the Hölder continuity, which has a central role in the qualitative theory of partial differential equations. The paper under review also contains a brief sketch of the personal and academic life of Otto Hölder.